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- Title
Suggestions to Social Workers for Surviving in Managed Care.
- Authors
Schneider, Ann W.; Hyer, Kathryn; Luptak, Marilyn
- Abstract
The article provides some suggestions to social workers for surviving in managed care. Health care professionals and consumers have witnessed a revolution in health care delivery during the past decade. As managed care continues to shift the locus of care from an inpatient to an outpatient setting, the need for hospital social work has decreased. Social workers, like other health care professionals, have seen layoffs in inpatient settings and increased employment opportunities in home care and other community care settings. Social work is a profession in transition, yet well positioned through its core values to ensure that the human touch remains in increasingly high-technology health care world. The need for skilled social workers able to function across a continuum of care and willing to translate their interventions into medical cost savings will grow with the aging of our population. Managed health care, although still evolving as a care delivery system, is not a passing fad. Successful adaptation involves a willingness to learn the structure of managed care, including understanding how social work services are reimbursed, knowing what social workers can do to increase profitability, and speaking a common language about achieving the organization's goal.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MEDICAL care; SOCIAL services; CAREGIVERS; PUBLIC welfare; FINANCIAL performance
- Publication
Health & Social Work, 2000, Vol 25, Issue 4, p276
- ISSN
0360-7283
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/hsw/25.4.276